“If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.”
Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert
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Famous Joseph Joubert Quotes
“Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.”
“Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.”
“The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.”
Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert
“TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.”
“Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.”
“What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.”
“Without duty, life is soft and boneless.”
Source: Some of the
“He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.”
“There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.”
“It is always our inabilities that vex us.”
Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?”
“We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.”
“Heaven is for those who think of it.”
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“Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.”
Source: Some of the
Source: Some of the
“We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.”
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“One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.”
“The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
Source: Some of the
“The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert